Simplicity

Keeping it simple

Chrome is designed to be as simple as possible. It's a browser that gets out
of the way of the web, so you can focus on what you care about most.

Easy to search & navigate

Getting where you want to go on the web should be simple. You shouldn't have
to ask yourself, "Am I searching the web, or I am navigating to a site?" You
should just start typing and arrive where you want to be.

That's why Chrome just has one box – the Omnibox – where you can both search
the web and navigate to sites. It autocompletes as you type and offers
suggestions.

Efficient Tab Management

Chrome's snappy tabs are easy to drag and drop and rearrange, and thanks to
Chrome's multi-process
architecture, you can open a hundred tabs without slowing Chrome down.

You can also pin your favorite tabs (like email) to the tabstrip so that
they appear in the same place every time you launch Chrome.

Tab to search

Why go to YouTube.com first and then search for a video? Just type
youtube.com into the Omnibox and hit tab to search YouTube directly. You
can also set up custom
keywords for your favorite sites.

Built-In PDF viewer

Chrome has a built-in PDF viewer, so you can load PDFs in a snap without
needing to install software or a plug-in. It's easy to resize, save, and
print PDFs with a click.

Start where you left off

When you close Chrome it will remember the tabs you had open so you can
pick up right where you left off.

Security

Chrome is designed to keep you safer and more secure on the web with built-in
malware and phishing protection, auto-updates to make sure you have all the latest
security fixes, and more.

Safe Browsing

Chrome will show you a warning message before you visit a site that is
suspected of containing malware or
phishing.

With Safe
Browsing technology enabled in Chrome, if you encounter a website
suspected of containing phishing or malware as you browse the web, you will
see a warning page like the one shown above.

A phishing attack takes place when someone masquerades as someone else to
trick you into sharing personal or other sensitive information with them,
usually through a fake website. Malware, on the other hand, is software
installed on your machine often without your knowledge, and is designed to
harm your computer or potentially steal information from your computer.

Sandboxing

Sandboxing helps prevent malware from installing itself on your computer,
or using what happens in one browser tab to affect what happens in another.
The sandbox adds an additional layer of protection against malicious web
pages that try to leave programs on your computer, monitor your web
activities, or steal private information from your hard drive (see video
below).

Auto-updates

To make sure you have the latest security update, Chrome checks regularly
to make sure that it's always kept up-to-date. The update check ensures
that your version of Chrome is automatically updated with the latest
security features and fixes without any action required on your part.

Privacy

Chrome puts you in control of your private information while helping protect the
information you share when you’re online.

Incognito mode

When you don't want your website visits or downloads to be recorded in your
browsing and download histories, you can browse in incognito mode.
In addition, any cookies created while in incognito mode are deleted after
you close all open incognito windows.

When you're browsing in incognito mode, you'll see the incognito icon in
the corner. Incognito mode is particularly handy since it's an easy way to
browse the web in a private way without needing to change your privacy
settings back and forth between browsing sessions. For example, you can
have one regular session as well as one incognito session in separate
windows at the same time.

Privacy preferences

You can control all your privacy preferences from the Chrome menu by
selecting Settings, clicking show advanced settings and then adjusting the
Privacy section.

Clearing your browsing data

With Chrome, you can clear your browsing data at any time so that this
information is not stored in your browser, including browsing and download
histories, cookies, saved passwords, and saved form data. Learn more

Customize privacy preferences by website

Under Chrome's content settings, you can control your privacy preferences for
cookies, images, JavaScript, and plugins on a site-by-site basis. For
example, you can set up cookie rules to automatically allow cookies only for
a specified list of sites that you trust, and then manually manage cookie
blocking and setting for all other sites. Learn more

Customization

Apps

Apps from the
Chrome Web Store use powerful new web technologies to give you the best
productivity, education, and gaming experiences, always just a click away on
the New Tab
Page.

Adding new users

But what if you share a computer with other people? You don’t want your
bookmarks, apps, and extensions getting mixed up with everyone else’s, and
you don’t want your Chrome stuff syncing to all their devices.

Now, you can add new users to
Chrome. Adding new users lets you each have your own Chrome experience, and
lets you each sign in to Chrome to sync your stuff.

Just go to Options (Preferences on a Mac), click “Personal Stuff,” and click
“Add new user.”

Extensions

Extensions are
custom tools that let you do more with Chrome, like control your music,
take screenshots, and share sites with friends, no matter where you are on
the web.

Themes

It‘s easy to add a little color to Chrome. You can install themes made by
top
artists from the Chrome Web Store, or you can make your own theme on
mychrometheme.com and share it with
friends.

Signing In

Signing in to Chrome brings your bookmarks, history, and other settings to all your
computers. It also automatically signs you in to all your favorite Google services.

Take your web with you

Signing in to Chrome brings your bookmarks, apps, history, and other settings
to all your devices (watch
video). Anything you update on one device instantly updates everywhere
else, and your Chrome stuff is safe in case anything happens to your computer.
It’s your web. Take it with you. Just go to the Wrench menu and select “Sign in
to Chrome…”

Please select your download package:

Note: Installing Google Chrome will add the Google
repository so your system will automatically keep Google Chrome up to date. If
you don’t want Google's repository, do “sudo touch /etc/default/google-chrome” before
installing the package.

Set Google Chrome as
my default browser

Help make Google Chrome better by
automatically sending usage statistics and crash reports to Google. Learn more